Hose-supporter.



No. 802,376. PATENTED OCT. 24, 1905. J. E. EHRLICH.

H0$E SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED APE. 28,1905.

ATTORNEY WITNESSES. I 1% rrnn sr'iris JAMES E. EHRLICH,

OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24;, 1905.

Application filed 'pril28,1905. Serial No. 257,956.

To all II/hem, it may concern:

Be it known that I. J AMES E. EI-IRLIOH, of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented anew and Improved Hose-Supporter, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in hose-supporters such as are adapted to be secured around the leg to support a stocking. Usually such devices are composed more or less of elastic material which has a tendency to hurt the leg and sometimes injure it permanently. Moreover, the clasp carried by such devices and which is intended to engage the stocking has generally a more or less fixed position with reference to this support, so that the parts do not hang in a way to adapt themselves easily to the movements of the wearer. To avoid these di'liiculties and to provide a cheap, simple, eflicient, and comfortable garter or hose-supporter is the object of my invention.

With these ends in view my invention consists of certain features of construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a perspective View showing the application of my improved hose-supporter to the leg of a wearer and to a stocking, the position of the latter being indicated by a dotted line.

In my invention 1 use a plain non-elastic band 10, which is long enough to go twice around the leg and which carries a hose-supporting clasp 11, the latter being adapted to slide freely on the band. The character of this clasp is not essential to the invention, and l show it and refer to it in a general way only. As illustrated, it has a ring 12, which slides freely on the band 10, a loop 11 of the usual type, a covered button 1d, which is engaged by the loop, and a support or hanger 15 for the button. In practice the button 14; is placed on theinside of the stocking, theloop 13 on the outside,and the button and the part of the stocking which coversit forced through the wider part of the loop and then pushed down into the narrower part. All this, however, is common to such clasps and the details can be departed from at will.

At its free ends the band 10 has fastening means to secure the ends together, and this means may be any usual fastening device, but should be adjustable. As shown, I use a ring 16, which is carried by a loop 17 in the band, and the length of the loop is adjusted by the buckle 18. The other end of the band carries a hook 19, which engages the ring 16. Obviously, however, any usual buckle or other means can be en'iployed for changing the length of the band, although .1 prefer the structure shown, as it is very convenient and is easy to the wearer.

It will be seen that the band is adapted to extend diagonally upward and around the leg from the stocking and then horizontally around, as shown clearly in the drawing, and it will be noticed especially that the clasp 11 is adapted to slide freely and loosely on the band 10, so that it adjusts itself to the shape of the leg and one 'does not need to be particular about where the fastening of the band takes place, owing to this adaptability of the clasp. In practice the band is easier by be ing non-elastic, and it will be noticed that the structure is cheap and simple.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A hose-supporter comprising a single unobstructed non-elastic band to encircle the leg more than once, an elongated loop carried by the band, said loop being of such size as to prevent its walls from binding againstthe band and adapted to gravitate to the lowest point of the band when the supporter is in operative position, and a clasp carried by the loop, the axis of the clasp being at right angles to the axis of the loop.

JA MES 1G. EHRLIOH.

-Witnesses: V

VVARRIGN B. HUTGHINSON,

WILLIS A. BARNns. 

